In a welcome announcement for music lovers, the National Centre of Performing Arts (NCPA) will launch its own jazz collective here on Friday to popularise the genre in India.


NCPA jazz music band to launch, perform in Mumbai


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Veteran Indian classical vocalist Rajabhau Deo is the sculptor of her musical upbringing, his daughter and disciple Alka Deo Marulkar said here ahead of her 'khayal vocal recital here on Thursday, adding that he was her first critic to teach her the aesthetic values of the Gwalior, Kirana and Jaipur Gharanas.


Father-guru Rajabhau Deo sculpted my musical upbringing: Alka Deo


Book: The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park; Author: Raghu Chundawat; Pages:356; Price: Rs.899


Tigers and cover-ups: Exposing scandals hidden in forests (Book Review)


Two noted Indian music bands -- Euphoria and Rakesh and Friends -- will perform at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) here on Friday and Saturday.


Mumbai music festival to see performances by major Indian bands


Even in the face of "extraordinary pressure to assimilate with the host populations", Tibetans living in exile in India have been extremely successful in retaining their ancestral way of life, says Sudeep Basu, whose recent book "In Diasporic Lands", attempts to chart the story of Tibetan refugees and their transformation since the exodus.


'Tibetans extremely successful in retaining their ancestral way of life'


Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, who starred in the X-Men and Iron Man film franchises, has been fined hundreds of millions of yuan for tax evasion and other offences, authorities said on Wednesday.


Top Chinese actress Bingbing fined for tax evasion


Popular vocalist Kavita Krishnamurti, who has sung in multiple Indian languages over four decades, will soon make her debut as a composer.


Kavita Krishnamurti to debut as composer


There are more "copy masters" and fewer trendsetters among those playing the sarod these days, laments maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, saying the focus for performers today is the "shining, glittering" world of television and social media.


Less trendsetters, more copy masters in sarod: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (IANS Interview)


Former Bangladeshi model of international fame, Bibi Russell turned a designer as she always wanted to "uphold the hidden gems of Bengali culture" through her 'Gamcha (cotton cloth) works' inspired by the earthy natural garments of Bauls -- singing minstrels of undivided Bengal.


I make garments inspired by Bauls, but in diversified way: Bangladesh-based Bibi Russell


India is the third-largest producer and exporter of coffee in Asia and the seventh-largest producer and fifth-largest exporter of coffee in the world. It accounts for 3.66 per cent (2017) of the global coffee production. The country produces more than three lakh tonnes, with Karnataka contributing 85 per cent of this. Coffee in India has a rich history of 300 years, offering a livelihood to more than 15 lakh families. India grows mainly Robustas (70 per cent), with Arabica accounting for the rest.


The coffee culture is here to stay (October 1 is World Coffee Day)


International titles by acclaimed authors will once again rule the roost in October, along with a biography of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and a splendid story for children, woven around the life of late President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.


Five books to look forward to in October 2018


Australian design and Indian handloom will come together at the forthcoming Lotus Make-Up India Fashion Week (LMIFW) Spring-Summer 2019 edition, where Japanese designer Atsushi Nakashima will showcase too.


Australian, Japanese designers to participate at LMIFW SS'19


Over the years, influencer engagement has become a powerful method of extending brand messaging and escalating brand reach. One of the strongest marketing trends in the world at the moment, collaborating with influencers has given brands an upper hand on the issue of reaching the right audiences effectively.


The ultimate guide to effective influencer marketing (Business Tips)


Meet Tanya, the protagonist of a new quick-read from Pakistan, who has "got a pretty good life, working for a Karachi newspaper and smoking-drinking-flirting her way through minor romantic escapades". The author, Taha Kehar, says that her character is his attempt to cultivate a narrative about what it means to be a woman in Karachi. But are there really many "politically opinionated, liberal, urban women that are both feisty and fearless", as Tanya is, in Pakistan today?


You can't stop Pakistani women from thinking, dreaming: Author Taha Kehar


A huge crowd of fans -- from every nook and corner of the city and NCR -- waited for hours to catch a glimpse of megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who took to a stage at a south Delhi market on Friday with wife Jaya and daughter Shweta Bachchan.


Consider Delhi like my home, says Big B as fans cheer


The Maharashtra government's prestigious 'Lata Mangeshkar Award' for 2018 will be conferred on Vijay Patil, of the music director duo Raam-Laxman, Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod Tawde said here on Friday.


Maharashtra names Raam-Laxman for Lata Mangeshkar Award


Flick through a story of thwarted desires, of love and its loss, of losing and finding oneself, and of falling and learning to rise; read the story of a man whose dead wife's messages come to him though another woman; read a story around an arranged marriage, where the the twenty-year-old bride-to-be discovers that she has no say in the matter and decides to carve out the unlikeliest of silver linings; and know of an unusual tale, set in the last years of the British Raj, about being torn between two worlds.


Of love, secrets, and an arranged marriage (IANS Books This Weekend)


The 12th edition of the Festival of Hope will celebrate 70 years of Swiss-India friendship, says founder Shalini Vig Wadhwa.


12th Festival Of Hope to celebrate Swiss-India friendship


Book: The Leapfroggers; Author: Ved Prakash Sandlas; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 220; Price: Rs 399


'The Leapfroggers': Good read about India's efforts to develop its own rockets (Book Review)


An art and music extravaganza 'Guru Vandana', featuring exponents Shiv Kumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia in a special jugalbandi of the santoor and the flute, will mark spiritual guru Paramhansa Yogananda's 125th birth anniversary year.


Art, music gala to mark Yogananda's 125th birth anniversary


Indo-Canadian actress Lisa Ray says penning her life story for a memoir, which will be out in the summer of 2019, has transported her to myriad experiences and the emotions of a life lived "close to the bone".

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